award-winning writer & performing artist in Lingit Aani, Juneau, Alaska
award-winning writer & performing artist in Lingit Aani, Juneau, Alaska
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My husband has jerry-rigged so much stuff, his last name should be a verb: “Wow, you really Haffner’d that one…” “Dang, check out that Haffner!” And the more embarrassing, “Sort of a half-ass Haffner, don’t you think?” Don’t get me wrong, I mean this in the most loving way possible. If it weren’t for his […]
Ahhhhh, Takhini Hot Springs… a lovely outdoor Olympic pool-sized bath fed by the natural hot springs of the Takhini underworld, where everything moves as if in slow-motion– like after dancing it up all night in the club then walking into daylight for the first time in a blurry-eyed state of blissful exhaustion just as the […]
The first five minutes in the Behemoth weren’t good. On first smell I could tell something wasn’t right. Then something in the truck caused my hyper sensitive lungs to react, and suddenly I needed my inhaler. On our first corner we climbed a small hill, and our flatbed Chevy Cheyenne work truck slowly putted up […]
First time in the Behemoth, an old asphalt paving flat-bed truck that was completely undriveable just two weeks ago, road tripping with a camper on the Golden circle from Skagway, Alaska, to Whitehorse, Canada, and ending up in Haines for the SE Alaska State Fair. Maneuvering at top speeds of 25 mph through windy, winding, […]
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” — Mathew 25:40 Last May, when the Trump administration starting separating children from their parents and housing them in hieleras (ice boxes) and cages, under deplorable conditions with no clear intention or process for reuniting them […]
Air dense with trees and pollen, I couldn’t get a breath in. Sent to live in an oxygen tent at age seven. Short breaths Left their autograph in my health, And I am left with gratitude That I can exhale chatter And inhale what really matters. One morning my jaw couldn’t move Because I could […]
